Hong Kong Bankers, Young Yuto, Rock for Japan

If you thought the hottest music event of the week in Hong Kong was Bob Dylan, think again.

A motley crew of Hong Kong financiers and kimono-clad members of Hong Kong’s Japanese community rocked to an 11-year-old Japanese guitar prodigy to raise US$300,000 for Japan’s earthquake relief efforts Thursday night at the Four Seasons hotel.

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